Contributions to American Educational History, Volume 9Herbert Baxter Adams U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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... learning in the several common- wealths . The writer discusses the rise of national education , with its relation to local , and brings forward the opinions of statesmen and scholars concerning the duties and functions of the Government ...
... learning in the several common- wealths . The writer discusses the rise of national education , with its relation to local , and brings forward the opinions of statesmen and scholars concerning the duties and functions of the Government ...
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... learning than that presented by a historical perspective of the ideas which have developed our great educational system . The colonists held learning as a sacred trust which they had brought from the Old World to be preserved and ...
... learning than that presented by a historical perspective of the ideas which have developed our great educational system . The colonists held learning as a sacred trust which they had brought from the Old World to be preserved and ...
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... learning . Schools of lower grade might be car- ried on by the single efforts of individuals under sanction of the gov- ernment , but the investments necessary to support a school of learning required special control and supplementary ...
... learning . Schools of lower grade might be car- ried on by the single efforts of individuals under sanction of the gov- ernment , but the investments necessary to support a school of learning required special control and supplementary ...
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... learning , for the social , moral , and religious improvement of communi- ties , there was added a new zeal for educated citizenship . Pennsyl vania in the Constitution of 1776 provided for the support of " one or more universities ...
... learning , for the social , moral , and religious improvement of communi- ties , there was added a new zeal for educated citizenship . Pennsyl vania in the Constitution of 1776 provided for the support of " one or more universities ...
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... learning and favor those connected with institu- tions of higher education , and it is no small matter that so many of the States of the Union have declared in their Constitutions for the protec- tion and fostering care of higher ...
... learning and favor those connected with institu- tions of higher education , and it is no small matter that so many of the States of the Union have declared in their Constitutions for the protec- tion and fostering care of higher ...
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Page 88 - Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates, in all future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 224 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 315 - The legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Page 88 - Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Senate of this Commonwealth are and shall be deemed their successors ; who with the President of Harvard College for the time being, together with the ministers of the Congregational churches in the towns of Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester...
Page 152 - ... with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices; and all useful learning shall be duly encouraged, and promoted, in one or more...
Page 52 - ... of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation ; the analysis of soils and water ; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds ; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals ; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese ; and such other researches...
Page 51 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same...
Page 31 - States, to which the youth of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their Education in all the branches of polite literature; in arts and Sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of Politics and good Government; and (as a matter of infinite Importance in my judgment) by associating with each other, and forming friendships in Juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which...
Page 211 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Page 48 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...